byoder@smcnet.smc.edu (Brian Yoder) (05/03/90)
In article <31997@dhw68k.cts.com> silk@dhw68k.cts.com (Mitch Gorman) writes: > I've got a 'Hawk 386-25' machine, with Phoenix Bios, and a >type 35 drive (80Meg, 1023x9x17). All of a sudden, it's been really wierding >out on me. When it tries to boot, it runs thru all the disks to see what's out >there. It then tries to boot from A:, and if there's nothing there, it just >hangs. Booting from floppy, and then running NDD shows that there is no >partition table on the disk. Well, okay, I mean, I know there was one there >yesterday, but hey, whatever... > NDD then asks me if I want it to scan the disk to try to revive any >old partitions that it finds. I say 'go ahead', and it actually finds the >partitions that are supposed to be out there (2-by-33Meg, and a 13Meg). It >tells me it's rebuilding the partition table, thensays 'reboot for this >information to take effect'. So I do. And it does. It works fine, that is, >until the NEXT time I boot, at which point the whole mess starts over... It's >lost the damned partition table again!! > We tried a different controller, but got no better (albeit different!) >results. Anyone have a clue what's going on here? It sounds like you have a surface demagnitization problem with your disk (the strength of the signal recorded on that area of the disk is weak and vanishes with time). > I'm told that the last thing that was run on this machine before it >was shut down for the last time while it worked right was Norton's Speed Disk. >Now, as far as I knew, SD kept its hot little hands _off_ the partition table; Quite true, SD doesn't touch the partition table. >anyway, that certainly couldn't have _permanently_ damaged that area of the >disk, could it??? Nope. I'm sure it's not SD. Have you had this disk for long? Have you had trouble with this before? Brian Yoder -- -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>- | Brian Yoder | answers *byoder(); | | uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder | He takes no arguments and returns the answers | -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-